Need for Safety Training

Written by Aruna Vayuvegula

Do employees need safety training? How do organizations or employees benefit from it? Safety training helps in avoiding accidents that are caused due to lack of knowledge or awareness of work process. Let’s look at them in detail below.

Meet legal obligations: Organizations are legally obliged to provide a safe work environment for their employees. Regulatory bodies conduct frequent inspections of workplace to make sure that safety parameters are adhered to by organizations. Violations can result in hefty penalties or legal law suits.

Develop a safety culture: Safety training is required for organizations to establish a safety culture so that employees are involved in promoting required safety procedures while on the job. Employees may be unfamiliar with certain equipments and their improper handling can result in accidents. Similarly employees may not understand the importance of proper execution of a task and safety training sensitizes employees to all these issues that will have an important bearing on the overall safety in the organization.

Ensure employee safety: Training typically covers the general safety and health of the employees and the work procedures. This ensures that the employees are not injured while doing their work. Most of the injuries or accidents are due to unsafe practices and these can be avoided when employees adopt safety culture.

Reduces financial loss: Organizations incur losses due to accidents and illness at the workplace. Building a safe work environment through safety training helps organizations reduce losses that are incurred due to equipment loss, damage to infrastructure, expenses related to workman compensation and increased insurance premiums.

Avoid the agony caused by accidents: Accidents can be distressing and can cause a lot of emotional pain and agony among employees. With a good safety training in place, such instances can be avoided. A safety training program not only results in fewer accidents, injuries or illness, but also boosts the morale of the workforce.

Safety training is critical in any work environment as it helps in keeping employees safe when doing their jobs. It also makes employees feel secured and protected.

Originally published January 27 20125/26/2014, updated February 18 2018

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